American Labor Party

The American Labor Party (ALP) was a democratic socialist and social democratic party in the United States which existed from 1936 to 1956. The party was founded by labor leaders and former Socialist Party of America members who sought to unique social democrats with labor unionists who would have otherwise voted for the Republicans and Democrats. The party sought to emulate the Labour Party of Britain, and it was mostly active in New York. During the 1950s, it lost much of its support to the rival Liberal Party of New York due to concerns that the ALP had been infiltrated by communists; it was terminated in 1956.